STATE OF INDUSTRY (2022-02-23)

TLC licenses about 175,000 drivers, 115,000 cars, and 1,000 businesses , which together transport more than a million passengers a day, making TLC the most active for-hire transportation regulatory agency globally with oversight of a critical component of the City’s transportation network.

In this book each tab is a separate report with a separate focus. Each report compares data to the month before as well as year before. Below, you will find short descriptions of each report in this book.

Overview (2022-02-23)

BASES REPORTING TRIPS metric displays counts of bases that were active. The counts are split by industry and are on two month delay.
A) The value boxes on the right compare latest data to one month and one year before.
B) Figures below represent temporal trend as well as the latest proportion of active bases by industry.

Overview (2022-02-23)

AVERAGE DAILY TRIPS metric display daily trips by industry.
Industries are HVFHV, Medallion, SHL, and Traditional FHV.
A) The value boxes on the right compare latest data to one month and one year before.
B) Figures below represent temporal trend as well as the latest proportion of trips by industry.

Overview (2022-02-23)

NUMBER OF UNIQUE DRIVERS metric shows the counts of unique drivers in the given month.
A driver is counted in if they made at least one trip in that month. Counts are split by industry.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends and ratios.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

NUMBER OF UNIQUE VEHICLES metric shows the counts of unique vehicles in the given month.
A vehicles is counted in if it made at least one trip in that month. Counts are split by industry.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends and ratios.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

AVERAGE DAYS VEHICLES ON THE ROAD metric reflects how active different industries are in a given month.
This metric is split by industries.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends and weighted ratios.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

AVERAGE HOURS PER DAY ON THE ROAD metric reflects how active different industries are on average/a day.
This metric is split by industries.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends and weighted ratios.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

AVERAGE TRIP LENGTH IN MINUTES metric display how long on average it took complete a trip in the given month.
This metric is useful to analyze traffic conditions on the road.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends and market proportions.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

PERCENT OF CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS metric displays how often customers paid with credit cards.
This metric only covers SHL and Medallions.
A) The graphs below display temporal trends.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before.

Overview (2022-02-23)

Monthly Trips Report diplays monthly trip trends split by industries, which are further split by sub-industries and companies.
There are two simple parts to this report:
A) The right half of the report displays a list of value boxes showing monthly trip numbers by the categories listed above. The numbers cover January, 2022 , compare it to December, 2021 and January, 2021 for all except traditional FHV industries. Traditional FHVs cover December, 2021, compare it to November, 2021 and December, 2020.
B) The bottom-left of the report displays overall trends of the industries, companies, and sub-companies. The data are split by months and goes back as much as we have data for.

Overview (2022-02-23)

Borough Trip Stats displays total trip counts by location and industry.
These visualizations show us where different industries tend to operate.
A) The pies below displays industry shares by borough.
B) The map on the right displays how many trips happened by borough. Each borough displays its count for the month of the report, compares it to the month before and a year before.

SUMMARY (2022-02-23)

Vision Zero Report displays metrics that we collect, analyze and share as part of our Vision Zero commitment.
Some of the metrics in this report are: violations and summonses issued, critical and fatal injuries, and tlc education numbers.

Overview (2022-02-23)

High Volume Utilizaion Report displays utilization rates for high volume fhv companies. This metric is aggregated by month
Utilization rate is calculated by taking into account time that drivers spend cruising (looking for a fare) and time with a passenger (ride time). The formula also accounts for the session times and the time that a driver splits between multiple companies.
A) The figure below displays overall utilization trend. The data are split by months and goes back to February, 2019 .
B) The value boxes display utilization rates of Uber and Lyft comparing January, 2022 to December, 2021 and January, 2021

Overview (2022-02-23)

High Volume Wait Times Report displays wait time by location for the high volume industry.
Wait times are very useful to determine supply and demand in different areas of the city. If the wait times are low, that means that there is enough vehicle supply in the area.
A) The table below displays wait times by taxi zones. It is ordered in descending order to display the highest (worst) wait times first. Below the table is a line graph that shows the change in average wait times across the city and time.
B) The map on the right is a visual representation of the table below. The darker color means longer wait times.

Overview (2022-02-23)

Monthly Crash Report displays crash, injury, and fatality counts by month and industry.
Crashes and injuries take into account the number of vehicles associated with an industry to adequately determine which industry tend to be involved in accidents more.
A) The pies below displays share of accidents by industry.
B) The value boxes on the right compare the latest month stats to the month and year before. The graphs below display temporal trends.